cirurgie
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French cirurgie, borrowed itself from Latin chīrurgia. Doublet of surgerie. At least one form has been remodelled to incorporate the suffix -erie (a process that happened already before the word was borrowed into Middle English).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cirurgie (uncountable)
- surgery (the part of medicine related to performing surgical operations)
Descendants
[edit]- English: chirurgy (altered after Latin and Greek)
References
[edit]- “cirurǧīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-1.